!! Sorry about sound issues with our podcast today !! -- Many situations in life, what you see and what God sees are not the same. Many times God is doing the work in areas you can't see, and the end it is better than we dreamed. It is not what it looks like to us. What looks like sickness, isolation, defeat, weakness, punishment. Heaven says health, redemption, victory, strength, life.

We are equipped as individuals, but we are also equipped as a church when we all come together. Jesus has give the church gifts, the Spirit has given the church gifts, but we all fit together as a church family when we each do our part. The Lord equips His church.

When God calls you He equips you. But God will rarely equip you with all you need at the beginning. When God supplies He is usually not early, but He is never too late. In the story of Abraham and Isaac we see how Abraham's obedience and faith released great blessing. And we also see the a beautiful picture of God offering His own Son on the cross.

God will equip you for the victory, but God will also equip you for the recovery. We can see from Elijah's life, even when fulfilling our calling, that there can come times of exhaustion or depression when we have given out all we have to give. But God will meet us in the low places to bring us out with new purpose, and equip us for what is next.

We need to simply believe God when He tells us that He will equip us for our future. God doesn't hold anything from you, He has given us everything in His grace. We access all that is in grace by faith. Our faith and God's mercy, release all that grace contains.

The Word of God will equip you, but it is the Spirit of God that will empower you. We have the Word to tell us the promises of God, but we need the Spirit to activates the promises. The Spirit and the Word work together to equip you for life.

The Word of God has been given to us by God, and it is what can equip us if we get into it with an open heart. The Word will teach you, rebuke, correct, train you in righteousness, and encourage you! The Word will point you to a relationship with Jesus.

God has equipped us with everything we need to get through this life and make a difference. We should do our best in the natural, but believe God for His supernatural. Here is a reminder of some of the ways God has equipped us in life.